Question by wes the potato: How efficient is Socialized Health care?
I’ve heard/read that in general Socialized health care can take months (up to 18 weeks) before the patient can receive treatment.
ie: Seemingly in Canada it can take a few weeks just to get a broken finger examined.
more extreme examples are of patients dying because of the wait for treatment
Is this true? How accurate is it?
If it’s true, why would we want to remove the already implicated health care? Isn’t treatment in America one of the most efficient?
Best answer:
Answer by Ice Cream Man
Socialized health care is not as bad as the propagandists make it out to be. It can take longer for things like elective surgeries and non-emergency treatment, but wait times for primary care are often shorter than in the U.S. The scare stories about people dying waiting for treatment are grossly exaggerated. Besides, I’ve also heard of Americans dying because they had no insurance or because their insurance company refused to cover their treatment.
Considering other advanced countries cover all their people, while we spend twice as much per person and still leave 15% of our population without any health coverage, AND allow medical bills to bankrupt hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, I’d say our system is probably the LEAST efficient. I’m talking about funding of the system, not delivery of the actual care.
If you want to know more about health care in other countries, I highly recommend watching this one-hour program:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/
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